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The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC), formerly the Arkansas Department of Correction, is the state law enforcement agency that oversees inmates and operates state prisons within the U.S. state of Arkansas. DOC consists of two divisions, the Arkansas Division of Corrections (ADC) and the Arkansas Division of Community Corrections (DCC ...
However, the execution orders of Williams and the remaining three prisoners – Ledell Lee, Jack Harold Jones, and Kenneth Dewayne Williams – were not halted. Eventually, one of the inmates, Lee, was executed on April 21, 2017, thus ending the 12-year moratorium on state-level executions in Arkansas since 2005. [22]
As of July 1, 2024 [update], there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [ 1 ] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [ 2 ]
Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 4, 2024, a total of 35 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in eight U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [3]
Ledell Lee (July 31, 1965 – April 20, 2017) [2] was an American man convicted and executed for the 1993 murder of his neighbor, Debra Reese. He was convicted in 1995, and the Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the conviction in 1997, but numerous questions have been raised about the justice of his trial and post-conviction representation.
The Varner Unit, pictured here, houses the State of Arkansas death row for men. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Since 1820, a total of 505 individuals have been executed. According to the Arkansas Department of Correction, as of September, 10 2024, a total of 26 men were under a sentence of death in the state.
Medium, low and minimum-security. Population. 2,840 (two facilities and prison camp) Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Correctional Complex, Forrest City (FCC Forrest City) is a United States federal prison complex for male inmates in Arkansas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States ...
Veronica Gonzales. Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime.